Accounting Major cancelled @ CCT

[joecct]

Well, that puts an end to this alumni's contributions.

Can't get enough qualified faculty my @$$. Another Ready, Fire, Aim spectacular by the Lame Duck Administration.

Joe LaCour
CCT '77 Accounting and Law B.S.
CCT '78 Accounting & Law M.S.

[Stemmer]

Joe,

I'm with ya on this one. Heck, they didn't contact me to teach! Now I'm really ticked at Denny! :mad:

[demock]

yeah its a sore subject on campus here.. they had a guy named Sam Phillips last semester-a visiting prof. mainly to teach the MBA module.

i know i'd be pretty upset if i was a junior accounting major. Dean Sugrue's got some different ideas...

[Stemmer]

Can someone please post a link to a story about it?

Thanks.

[MikeR]

http://www.clarksonintegrator.com/news/360046.html

[demock]

Its actually a pretty well-written editorial (except for a few typos and grammar mistakes that the integrator should have picked up on).

[Richard Beeler]

except for a few typos and grammar mistakes that the integrator should have picked up on


Amen! I loved "the recent future":)

Big question: Any hockey players involved?

LET'S GO TECH!!!

[scottcomstock]

I was forwarded this by the University:

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February 12, 2003

Editor
Integrator
Clarkson University
PO Box 8710
Potsdam, NY 13699-8710

Editor:

I am compelled to comment on the February 3, 2003, Integrator article
about Clarkson’s Accounting major. The article implies that students
admitted to Clarkson as Accounting majors will not be able to graduate in
that major. This is not accurate. Current sophomores, juniors and seniors
can all graduate as Accounting majors, if they so choose.

However, Clarkson has developed four new majors better suited to today’s
job market, and this may have been a source of confusion to the Integrator
reporter.

I am writing this letter to make certain that our students, alumni and
parents have an accurate view on the nature of our major changes, the
valuable reasons for these changes, and, most of all, Clarkson's
commitment to deliver on the promises we made to our current students when
they enrolled.

Last February, the School of Business announced a new multidisciplinary
major called Financial Information and Analysis, along with three other
new majors. (See the story in the March 4, 2002, Integrator at
http://www.clarksonintegrator.com/news/204598.html .)

It has long been recognized in business education that accounting majors
were exposed to too little finance. Likewise, finance majors had little
exposure to accounting. Neither major had enough exposure to information
systems.

The Financial Information and Analysis major is the new face for
accounting education. This major incorporated the lion’s share of what was
once Accounting and what was once Finance.

To put our changes in perspective, accounting education nationwide is
undergoing a major change. In the past, the educational requirement to sit
for the CPA exam was satisfied by 120 credit hours of study, with 24 of
those being required in accounting. Now, all but three of the 50 states
and the District of Columbia have adopted and implemented an educational
requirement for 150 hours of study with a required 33 credits in
accounting. In effect, this change will necessitate a graduate degree. All
undergraduate programs in accounting are therefore approaching
obsolescence without change.

We believe that the new Financial Information and Analysis major is an
eminently preferable undergraduate degree, and one that serves very well
for the first 120 hours towards a possible 150 hours that would enable CPA
certification.

The new Financial Information and Analysis major is a progressive effort
to create an accounting education that best serves our students and
employers.

Sincerely,


Timothy F. Sugrue, Dean
Clarkson University School of Business